On Jan 15, 2013 7:59 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:09:56 +0000 > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:57:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > On the rare occasion when I reboot or shut this laptop down, it > > > continually and consistently gets stuck on one of the final steps, > > > to umount /home > > > > If you logout as your user(s) so only root is logged in, does lsof > > show any hits for /home? > > Only 1 hit - a background ssh process that sets up a bunch of tunnels > and port forwards so I can get into the corporate network for anywhere. > > But I was not able to make the problem re-appear in short reboot > cycles. So whatever is hanging the box is something that starts up in > the course of work, it doesn't appear to be there directly after a KDE > login. > > I might have to look at my work flow closely to find all those unusual > things I do in the course of work. I did manage to see the full > shutdown output on the screen with these tests though - it > umounts /home then umounts /boot, but the second umount message is > never displayed. Seeing as it's just a regular sdb1 partition using > ext2 I don;t really think it's getting stuck as the next step starts > up. It's more likely to have something to do with /home > > > > > > I had a similar problem with my MythTV backend failing to > > unmount /var. It turned out that mythbackend was failing to shutdown > > but openrc carried on trying to shutdown. If I make sure mythbackend > > really is stopped, the reboot proceeds normally, which is much better > > since I had to go into the loft to reboot the box manually, > > > > > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > >
A bit roundabout, but you can also try making a 'pseudo-service'. Make it 'depend' on a late-stage service so it starts last, and shuts down early. The stop() part of the pseudo-service should perform an lsof >> a file (in a directory still available during the last throes of OpenRC like, say, /etc). I hope I'm making sense... Rgds,
